EP0449570B1 - Connecteur électrique multi-broches avec broches terminales - Google Patents

Connecteur électrique multi-broches avec broches terminales Download PDF

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EP0449570B1
EP0449570B1 EP91302616A EP91302616A EP0449570B1 EP 0449570 B1 EP0449570 B1 EP 0449570B1 EP 91302616 A EP91302616 A EP 91302616A EP 91302616 A EP91302616 A EP 91302616A EP 0449570 B1 EP0449570 B1 EP 0449570B1
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Rupert J. Fry, Jr.
Eymons Silbernagel
Gary E. Polgar
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00—Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/62—Means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts or for holding them in engagement
    • H01R13/629—Additional means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts, e.g. aligning or guiding means, levers, gas pressure electrical locking indicators, manufacturing tolerances
    • H01R13/631—Additional means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts, e.g. aligning or guiding means, levers, gas pressure electrical locking indicators, manufacturing tolerances for engagement only
    • H01R13/6315—Additional means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts, e.g. aligning or guiding means, levers, gas pressure electrical locking indicators, manufacturing tolerances for engagement only allowing relative movement between coupling parts, e.g. floating connection
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R12/00—Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted for printed circuits, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB], flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, e.g. terminal strips, terminal blocks; Coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures; Terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures
    • H01R12/70—Coupling devices
    • H01R12/71—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/712—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures co-operating with the surface of the printed circuit or with a coupling device exclusively provided on the surface of the printed circuit
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R12/00—Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted for printed circuits, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB], flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, e.g. terminal strips, terminal blocks; Coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures; Terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures
    • H01R12/70—Coupling devices
    • H01R12/71—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/712—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures co-operating with the surface of the printed circuit or with a coupling device exclusively provided on the surface of the printed circuit
    • H01R12/716—Coupling device provided on the PCB
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R12/00—Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted for printed circuits, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB], flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, e.g. terminal strips, terminal blocks; Coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures; Terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures
    • H01R12/70—Coupling devices
    • H01R12/91—Coupling devices allowing relative movement between coupling parts, e.g. floating or self aligning
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R12/00—Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted for printed circuits, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB], flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, e.g. terminal strips, terminal blocks; Coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures; Terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures
    • H01R12/70—Coupling devices
    • H01R12/7005—Guiding, mounting, polarizing or locking means; Extractors
    • H01R12/7011—Locking or fixing a connector to a PCB
    • H01R12/7064—Press fitting
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R12/00—Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted for printed circuits, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB], flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, e.g. terminal strips, terminal blocks; Coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures; Terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures
    • H01R12/70—Coupling devices
    • H01R12/7005—Guiding, mounting, polarizing or locking means; Extractors
    • H01R12/7011—Locking or fixing a connector to a PCB
    • H01R12/707—Soldering or welding
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00—Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/40—Securing contact members in or to a base or case; Insulating of contact members
    • H01R13/405—Securing in non-demountable manner, e.g. moulding, riveting
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R4/00—Electrically-conductive connections between two or more conductive members in direct contact, i.e. touching one another; Means for effecting or maintaining such contact; Electrically-conductive connections having two or more spaced connecting locations for conductors and using contact members penetrating insulation
    • H01R4/02—Soldered or welded connections
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05K—PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS
    • H05K3/00—Apparatus or processes for manufacturing printed circuits
    • H05K3/30—Assembling printed circuits with electric components, e.g. with resistor
    • H05K3/32—Assembling printed circuits with electric components, e.g. with resistor electrically connecting electric components or wires to printed circuits
    • H05K3/34—Assembling printed circuits with electric components, e.g. with resistor electrically connecting electric components or wires to printed circuits by soldering
    • H05K3/341—Surface mounted components
    • H05K3/3421—Leaded components
    • H05K3/3426—Leaded components characterised by the leads

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  • This invention generally relates to electrical connectors and, particularly, to a multi-pin electrical connector adapted for mounting on a printed circuit board, with floating terminal pins to accommodate any non-uniform spacing between the connector and the printed circuit board.
  • Multi-pin electrical connectors are widely used for connecting circuit traces on printed circuit boards with other printed circuit boards or with a complementary connector.
  • the multi-pin connector may be a male plug having terminal pins mounted to or on the printed circuit board for conductively engaging circuit traces on the board, the pins of the male plug, in turn, being mateable with terminal contacts in a complementary female receptacle connectable with the male plug.
  • the terminal pins of the multi-pin connector have solder tails which are inserted through holes in the printed circuit board and soldered to surrounding circuit traces on the board for establishing electrical conductivity therewith.
  • solder pins are soldered to the circuit traces on the printed circuit board by surface engagement rather than extending through holes in the board.
  • the terminal pins are fabricated uniformly or identical to each other, with identical dimensions, including the length of the solder tails which project from the connector header or housing.
  • the printed circuit board be warped, bent or have other irregularities resulting in non-uniform spacing between the connector header and the surface of the printed circuit board, some of the solder tails of the terminal pins end up being spaced from the circuit traces on the board, resulting in inferior solder connections or no connections at all. This is equally true if the circuit board, itself, is precisely planar, but the header or housing of the connector is not flat and has a bend therein or other irregular surface problems, again resulting in non-uniform spacing between the header and the board.
  • US-A-4,854,882 discloses a surface mountable electronic component socket for mounting on the surface of a printed circuit board including a socket made of insulative material and a plurality of surface mountable terminals which are disposed within the socket body.
  • Each terminal includes a lead portion for surface mounting on an associated contact area of a circuit board, and a hollow body section adapted to receive the lead of an integrated circuit or other electronic component.
  • Each terminal is axially movable of floatable within its respective opening in the socket. This axial movement of the terminals accommodates misalignment which may occur between the surface mounted leads and the printed circuit board thereby providing reliable engagement of the socket with the circuit board.
  • An object, therefore, of the invention is to provide a new and improved multi-pin electrical connector adapted for surface mounting on a printed circuit board.
  • the connector includes a header or housing having a plurality of pin-receiving through holes.
  • a plurality of terminal pins are received in the holes of the header.
  • the terminal pins have spaced enlargement means located thereon on opposite sides of the header to retain the pins in the holes.
  • the enlargement means being formed along the pins a distance greater than the thickness of the header about the holes, whereby the pins can float in the holes to accommodate any non-uniform spacing between the header and the printed circuit board.
  • the holes in the header have cross-sectional dimensions greater than the dimensions of the pins within the holes thereby allowing the pins to float by moving transversely, longitudinally and angularly pivoting in relation to the holes.
  • Figures 1-3 and 7 show an electrical connector having terminal pins mounted in a header
  • Figures 4-6 show an electrical connector having the terminal pins mounted in a housing, both embodiments being shown for establishing an electrical connection between the terminal pins and a printed circuit board.
  • a multi-pin electrical connector is adapted for surface mounting on a printed circuit board 12.
  • the connector includes a header 14 having a plurality of pin-receiving through holes 16 (Fig. 3).
  • a plurality of terminal pins, generally designated 18, are received in holes 16 of header 14 as best illustrated in Figure 3.
  • Each pin terminal 18 has a terminal portion 20 projecting upwardly (as viewed in the drawings) from header 14 and a solder tail portion 22 extending at a right-angle to terminal portion 20 and disposed below header 14.
  • Solder tail portion 22 has a bottom surface 24 for surface engagement with and soldering to a printed circuit trace 26 on board 12.
  • terminal pins 18 and their mounting in holes 16 of header 14 generally are conventional. However, heretofore such terminal pins predominantly have been press-fit into the holes in the header.
  • This construction or assembly of the connector presents a number of problems, including the creation of stresses in the insulating material of which header 14 is fabricated. Such headers normally are molded and have built-in stresses due to the molding operation. Press-fitting terminal pins into the header compounds the stress problem. In addition, close tolerances had to be maintained between the dimensions of the pins and the dimensions of the holes in the header.
  • the tight press-fit mounting of the pins left no accommodation for irregularities in either the printed circuit board or the header which might cause non-uniform spacing between the header and the printed circuit board, which would result in the solder tail portions of some of the terminal pins being spaced from the circuit traces on the printed circuit board. Such spacing results in inferior solder connections or no connections at all.
  • Figure 1 illustrates a common defect wherein it can be seen that printed circuit board 12 is bowed downwardly to create non-uniform spacing between the board and header 14.
  • the printed circuit board may be flat or planar and the header be bowed for one reason or another. Surface irregularities can cause non-uniform spacing between the header and the board.
  • the pins were made to extremely close tolerances or were made of a thin material so that the pins could bend, either situation being undesirable.
  • the invention contemplates solving these problems by mounting terminal pins 18 in header 14 so that the pins can float in the holes to accommodate any non-uniform spacing between the header and the printed circuit board. More particularly, spaced enlargements 28 are located on terminal portion 20 of each terminal pin 18 to be located on opposite sides of header 14 to retain the pins in the holes but allow for floating action of the pins in the holes relative to the header, axially of the holes. This is accomplished, as seen in Figures 1-3 and 7, by spacing enlargements 28 a distance greater than the thickness of header 14, at least in the area of the header about the holes.
  • enlargements 28 can be provided in a variety of processes, one of which would be to coin or punch the enlargements of the pin blank whereby the enlargements are integral with the pin, as shown particularly in Figure 2.
  • indentations 30 FIG. 2
  • Other enlargements would include a bend 30 in the pin or arms 32 punched out of the walls of a stamped and formed pin.
  • the spaced enlargements thereby retain the pins in the holes of the header yet provide a floating action to accommodate any non-uniform spacing between the header and the printed circuit board to which the terminal pins are to be soldered.
  • Figure 3 shows hole 16 having a cross-sectional dimension greater than the cross-dimensions of the pin within the hole. This is somewhat exaggerated in the figure to exemplify the fact that no stresses whatsoever are created by forcing pins through the insulating material of the header.
  • the holes may be intentionally enlarged to provide floating action by allowing the pins to move transversely, longitudinally, and angularly pivoting in relation to the holes, as described below in relation to Figures 4-6.
  • Figures 4-6 show terminal pins 18 mounted in holes 16a in the base 32 of a multi-pin connector housing, generally designated 34.
  • Like numerals are applied to the portions of pins 18 corresponding to like portions described above in relation to Figures 1-3.
  • connector housing 34 has sockets 36 and into which the terminal portions 20 of terminal pins 18 extend. Because the housing surrounding sockets 36 prevents access to the terminal portions of the pins for stamping purposes, the right-hand (as viewed in Figures 4 and 5) enlargements 28 of the terminal pins are pre-formed before the pins are inserted through holes 16a in base 32 of housing 34. To this end, the angled solder tail portion 22 of each pin originally may be collinear with terminal portion 20, prior to assembly in the housing, and then the solder tail portion can be bent while in the jig just as the left-hand enlargement is formed after insertion of the pin through the respective hole in the housing.
  • the electrical connector is adapted for surface mounting and soldering of tips or distal ends 40 of the solder tails to circuit traces 26 on printed circuit board 12 (Fig. 6). Therefore, within the concepts of the invention, the terminal pins are provided with a floating action, generally in the direction of double-headed arrow A, by means of enlarging holes 16a in the housing in order that the terminal pins can sort of "teeter” or float within the holes to accommodate any non-uniform spacing between the housing and the printed circuit board.
  • terminal pins in the embodiment of Figures 4-6 should be designed so that there is a greater pin mass outside the housing than inside the housing, i.e., on one side of the hole (the left side in Figs. 4 and 5) versus the other side, whereby the greater mass can be utilized to ensure contact of the pin tips 40, by gravity, with the printed circuit traces on board 12. This can be accomplished simply by making the bent solder tail portion 22 longer than terminal portion 20.
  • Sockets 36 form receptacles for receiving complementary connectors having terminal contacts for establishing electrical connection with terminal portions 20 of terminal pins 18.

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  1. Connecteur électrique multibroches (10) adapté à un montage superficiel sur une carte de circuits imprimés (12), comprenant :
    une en-tête (14, 34) traversée par une série de trous (16, 16a) recevant des broches,
    une série de broches terminales (18) de section transversale sensiblement constante sur leur longueur, les broches terminales (18) étant reçues dans les trous (16) de l'en-tête, des parties faisant saillie de celle-ci pour un contact superficiel avec des traces de circuits (26) sur la carte de circuits imprimés (12), et
    des moyens d'élargissement espacés (28), sur les broches terminales (18), situés sur les côtés opposés de l'en-tête (14, 34) pour retenir les broches (18) dans les trous, les moyens d'élargissement (28) étant espacés le long des broches d'une distance supérieure à l'épaisseur de l'en-tête (14) autour des trous (16), de telle sorte que les broches (18) puissent flotter dans les trous pour s'accommoder d'un espacement non uniforme éventuel entre l'en-tête (14) et la carte de circuits imprimés (12) et assurent un contact entre lesdites parties de broches terminales avec les traces de circuits (26), caractérisé en ce que :
    les broches terminales sont des broches terminales mâles pleines (18), et
    l'un des moyens d'élargissement (28) comprend une partie matricée de la broche terminale (18) formée après insertion de la broche terminale (18) à travers un trou de l'en-tête (14, 34).
  2. Connecteur électrique multibroches selon la revendication 1, dans lequel lesdits trous (16, 16a) de l'en-tête (14, 34) ont des dimensions transversales supérieures aux dimensions des broches (18) à l'intérieur des trous pour permettre le flottement des broches dans une direction transversale aux trous.
  3. Connecteur électrique multibroches selon la revendication 1, dans lequel lesdits trous (16, 16a) de l'en-tête (14, 34) ont des dimensions en coupe transversale supérieures aux dimensions des broches (18) à l'intérieur des trous pour permettre le flottement des broches dans une direction longitudinale des trous.
  4. Connecteur électrique multibroches selon la revendication 1, dans lequel lesdits trous (16, 16a) de l'en-tête (14, 34) ont des dimensions en coupe transversale supérieures aux dimensions des broches (18) à l'intérieur des trous pour permettre le flottement des broches dans une direction de pivotement angulaire (A) dans les trous.
  5. Connecteur électrique multibroches selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel lesdites broches terminales (18) ont des masses supérieures sur un côté desdits trous à celles de l'autre côté des trous, de telle sorte que les masses les plus grandes puissent être utilisées pour assurer le contact des broches, par gravité, avec la carte de circuits imprimés (12) lorsque l'en-tête (14, 34) est orientée de manière appropriée.
  6. Connecteur électrique multibroches selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel au moins l'un desdits moyens d'élargissement comprend une partie ployée (22) de ladite broche terminale (18).
  7. Connecteur électrique multibroches selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel lesdites broches terminales (18) comprennent des composants métalliques matricés et façonnés dont font partie intégrante lesdits moyens d'élargissement (28).
  8. Connecteur électrique multibroches selon la revendication 7, dans lequel au moins l'un desdits moyens d'élargissement comprend des bras en porte-à-faux (32) formés sur les côtés de ladite broche terminale (18).
  9. Connecteur électrique multibroches selon la revendication 8, dans lequel au moins un autre desdits moyens d'élargissement comprend une partie étendue (34) du côté de ladite broche terminale (18).
  10. Procédé de formation d'un connecteur électrique multibroches selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, comprenant les étapes suivantes:
    on forme une broche terminale (18) avec un élargissement supérieur (28),
    on insère la broche (18) à travers un trou récepteur de broche (16) d'une en-tête (14, 34), et
    on forme un élargissement inférieur (28) pour retenir la broche (18) dans le trou (16).
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